Sample Sentences forlaggard (auto-selected)
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By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows.† (source)
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He looks down at the back of Jackie's glossy head and he looks at his own trouser cuffs flaked an intimate beige and the spatter across his shoe tops in a strafing pattern and the gumbo puddle nearby that contains a few laggard gobs of pinkoid stuff from deep in Gleason's gastric sac.† (source)
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It rides ahead of your laggard will.† (source)
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Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.† (source)
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Throughout that first year at the Beijing Dance Academy, I was considered a laggard by most of my teachers.† (source)
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And again he vigorously nudged the teacher's pet in the ribs to spur his laggard humor.† (source)
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The laggards and limpers who weren't running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found.† (source)
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He hurried on, skipping sometimes out of sheer deliverance, sometimes waving at a laggard pole, gurgling to himself, giggling at himself, absurdly weary.† (source)
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Highgarden and Storm's End support his claim, and the Dornishmen will not be laggardly.† (source)
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Twilight had long fallen when a little company of laggards, their SS escorts urging them to make haste, passed the building where I was still hiding.† (source)
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The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.† (source)
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A thousand feet up the immense slant of the Lhotse Face, I ascended a faded nylon rope that seemed to go on forever, and the higher I got, the more laggardly I moved.† (source)
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The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.† (source)
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"Malluch is a laggard to-night," he said, showing where his thoughts were.† (source)
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"I hear fifty...sixty-five...seventy...": the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars.† (source)
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Eragon charged forward, ignoring the panicked laggards within reach of his burning sword.† (source)
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